Cookies may get buyers baked

Suspicious sales lead to drug arrests at Grafton High

December 27, 2012|By Amanda Kerr, akerr@dailypress.com | 757-247-4733

YORK — York-Poquoson deputies earlier this month charged three York County teens with drug-related charges in connection with incidents at Grafton High School including the suspected sale of marijuana laced cookies.

Two teens were charged Dec. 3 after a school resource officer at Grafton High became suspicious of a teen selling cookies at the school, said York-Poquoson Sheriff's Lt. Dennis Ivey Jr.

Ivey said the resource officer searched a 16-year-old boy and found rolling papers, a smoking device and a plastic bag with suspected marijuana. Ivey said the officer also suspected the cookies the teen had been selling were laced with marijuana. The cookies were sent to a lab for further testing, he said.

The 16-year-old boy was charged with the sale of drugs on or near school property, the sale or distribution of marijuana, possession of marijuana and possession or distribution of controlled paraphernalia. Ivey said a 14-year-old boy who allegedly bought marijuana from the older teen was also charged with possession of marijuana.

In an unrelated incident a 17-year-old boy was charged on Dec. 7 after a resource officer smelled an odor of marijuana coming from a bathroom at Grafton High. Ivey said a search of the teen turned up a "homemade" smoking device and suspected synthetic marijuana also known as Spice.

The 17-year-old was charged with possession of synthetic cannabinoids and possession or distribution of controlled paraphernalia.